by Louise ErdrichFrom Orion MagazineResist the thought that you may need a savior,or another special being to walk beside you.Resist the thought that you are alone.Resist turning your back on the knifeof the world’s sorrow,resist turning that knife upon yourself.Resist your disappearanceinto sentimental monikers,into the violent pattern of corporate logos,into the mouth of the unholy flower of con...

by Jeff FosterYou have to fall to fly, you have to break to heal, and when it comes to forgiveness you have to feel the hurt, the sorrow, the anger, the rage, before it can pass into love. You have to validate the part of you that burns, stings, aches, feels bruised and abused and abandoned now, drench that part of you with loving awareness, hold that vulnerable and precious child close.You cannot...

by Frances Moore Lappé / Local FuturesPeople yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for consumers, but, they assume, it would not be up to the task of providing all the foo...

A WILD COMPLIANCEby Ben Weaver at Dark MountainI’ve got maps spread out all over the kitchen floorheadwaters splintering into deltaswhose braids are hollowingmy spirit of its untruthsthe snow blowing down my collarthe rain leaking in through my bootsthe river depositing silt into my hairwhittled down to sapI’m letting the light inhowever it wants to get inOut in the darkness of the frozen lakether...

by Robert MastersReprinted from www.robertaugustusmasters.comAuthentic shadow work awakens us to our conditioning both personally and collectively, helping bring everything—everything!—that we are into the circle of our being, consciously and fully. We don’t just wake up, but also mature, becoming truly responsible, staying connected to what really matters.As we engage in this work, we...

by Derrick Jensen and Frank Joseph Smecker / reposted from TruthoutWith an entire planet being slaughtered before our eyes, it’s terrifying to watch the very culture responsible for this – the culture of industrial civilization, fueled by a finite source of fossil fuels, primarily a dwindling supply of oil – thrust forward wantonly to fuel its insatiable appetite for “growth.”Deluded by myt...

written by Robert MastersReposted from www.robertaugustusmasters.comParalleling and distracting us from our suffering is an abundance of dysfunction in spiritual drag.This includes spiritualized greed (think so-called prosperity consciousness), spiritualized escapism (dissociation masquerading as transcendence), spiritualized narcissism (the you-can-have-it-all deification of me-ness), and other f...

I have had a copy of Erich Fromm's "The Art of Loving" with me since I was a teenager because it was my Dad's favourite book from his days as a social work student. Nowadays Erich Fromm is not nearly mentioned enough in academic courses or meaningful conversations. His insights are amazing and very relevant to the world-as-it-is in 2017. "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" is a book I highly...

Reposted from www.truthdig.comwritten by Chris HedgesThe opioid crisis, the frequent mass shootings, the rising rates of suicide, especially among middle-aged white males, the morbid obesity, the obsession with gambling, the investment of our emotional and intellectual life in tawdry spectacles and the allure of magical thinking, from the absurd promises of the Christian right to the belief that r...